Abbreviations

Abbreviations are often used in chat and other places in Guild Wars 2. The following article aims to document the abbreviations seen most usually. Note that none of these abbreviations are case sensitive in practice, and their appearance in-game will vary accordingly.

The page does not aim to be all encompassing, but rather to cover:

Terms that are likely to be encountered (i.e. if you haven't seen it used commonly in chat, it's probably not well known enough and thus not likely encountered).

Terms that are relevant to gameplay (e.g. no need to explain meanings of widely known social abbreviations such as "lol")

Some other non-abbreviation terms can be found in the Glossary category.

When adding new abbreviations:

If the abbreviated and non-abbreviated terms are both common, list both.

If the term varies in capitalization, just list the most common abbreviation. (e.g. AB instead of Ab.)

You can reach this page from in-game at any time by typing /wiki Lingo into the chat box.

A value used to describe how much damage a player or other character is able to deal. Additionally, a group may look for DPS players, which means they are looking for players whose primary group role is dealing direct damage to the enemy.

Used mainly for trait and skill systems, and indicate that a particular trait/skill enters an internal cooldown before producing its effect. For example, the skill Meteor Shower has an ICD of 0.5sec, it means each meteor will only produce damage once every 0.5sec, if the meteor hits a target and the cooldown is up the damage will simply be negated.

Refers to activities in Silverwastes - typically either doing meta events, doing meta bosses, or a Lost Bandit Chest train. Often accompanied with XX%, indicating how far along the map is towards the meta boss events.

Sweep

Sweep

In World vs World, checking a recently captured tower, keep or Stonemist for hidden enemy players.

To create and advertise a party with LFG with the intent of bringing more players to an instance of a map. Or to join such a party, travel to that instance, and leave immediately. Used as a means to fill a map with players to increase or share the success of an event.

An in-game tool for buying and selling loot, accessed by default with O.

Train / KTrain

Train

A great amount of players using the strength of numbers to achieve a task with little difficulty. May in particular apply to Karma Train (capturing camps/objectives/towers/keeps in WvW of EotM in a cycle to acquire a constant stream of karma, experience, and loot), Champion Train (circling a set amount of places where Champions spawn to kill them efficiently for loot, or swarming an event to make more of them spawn) or sometimes Fail Train (staying at a place farming an event or an event chain that restarts faster or is more lucrative when failed).